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Study finds R.I. manufacturing disproportionately affected by COVID-19 clusters

Coronavirus 12/01/2021

PROVIDENCE – Manufacturing had the highest rate of COVID-19 workplace clusters in Rhode Island outside of health, congregate care and education settings, according to...

Dining Out: What’s in a name? During a pandemic, a lot

Dining Out 11/06/2020

Who says there is no entertainment at restaurants in this time of COVID-19? The following encounter would have been quite entertaining if it were...

WEATHER OR NOT: Lt. Gov. Daniel J. McKee gets a closer look at an “igloo” set up at Kay’s Restaurant in Woonsocket. With McKee is Kay’s owner David Lahousse. Ten of the structures, which cost over $1,400 each, are now in place at the restaurant to extend outdoor dining. / COURTESY OFFICE OF LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR

Dining Out: Encouraging numbers

Dining Out 10/23/2020

Here in Rhode Island, so many of our choices when it is time to eat revolve around restaurants. It is one of the real...

BY THE FIRE: 15 Point Road Restaurant in Portsmouth turned on the outdoor heaters in the first weekend of October. Proprietors Sean and Carly Smith said the heaters arrived after being on back order for months. / COURTESY 15 POINT ROAD RESTAURANT

Dining Out: Naysayers may be wrong

Dining Out 10/09/2020

Under normal circumstances, the restaurant industry can be tremendously exciting. Every night is a performance and a roll of the dice. Will our place...

Breathe, adapt and overcome

Coronavirus 09/25/2020

Adam Batchelder Owner and executive chef, Smoke & Squeal BBQ The pandemic has tested all facets of business, from large to small, Wall Street to Main...

FINE-TUNING: A technician makes an adjustment to a robot at Miso Robotics’ White Castle test kitchen in Pasadena, Calif., on July 9. / MISO ROBOTICS VIA AP

Restaurants, kitchens putting more robot cooks to work

Coronavirus 07/17/2020

HAYWARD, Calif. – Robots that can cook – from flipping burgers to baking bread – are in growing demand as virus-wary kitchens try to...

PEDDLING HIS GOODS: Brian Leosz bakes his products in the Olneyville section of Providence and takes them by bike across the city to be sold. / COURTESY MARIANNE LEE PHOTOGRAPHY

Baker delivers croissants à la bike cart

Entrepreneurship 03/06/2020

Brian Leosz had a sweet tooth as a child and an aunt who baked. This was the foundation of a sweet career in croissants. Leosz...

2019 was the year of ‘Uber to table’

Dining Out 01/03/2020

The year 2019 may well be remembered in dining circles as one during which a major change took place on both sides of the...

PBN on WJAR-TV, Dec. 17, 2018

Entrepreneurship 12/17/2018

Ellen Slattery looks to bridge the divide between special-occasion and casual fare. Every week, PBN Editor Mark S. Murphy appears on WJAR-TV NBC 10’s Coffee...